Year of the Pig: Personality, Compatibility & Lucky Traits

The Pig — also called the Boar — is the twelfth and final sign of the Chinese zodiac: generous, honest, and wonderfully easy-going. If you were born in a Pig year, here's what your sign is said to reveal about your personality, love life, and career.

Which years are the Year of the Pig?

Recent Pig years include 1983, 1995, 2007, and 2019, with the next in 2031. Because the Chinese year begins at Lunar New Year, those born in January or early February should check the rollover — you may belong to the previous sign, the Dog.

Pig personality and traits

• Generous, warm, and big-hearted.
• Honest, sincere, and easy to get along with.
• Diligent and reliable when it counts.
• Optimistic, tolerant, and forgiving.

Pigs can also be naive, over-trusting, and inclined to indulge themselves a little too freely.

Pig love and compatibility

The Pig's best matches are the Tiger, Rabbit, and Goat, who cherish the Pig's warmth and honesty. The classic clash is with the Snake, whose guardedness and the Pig's openness can misalign. In love, Pigs are affectionate, generous, and wholeheartedly devoted.

Pig careers

Warm and reliable, Pigs thrive in hospitality, the arts, philanthropy, human resources, finance, and any field built on trust and genuine care.

For the full system — the five elements and the lunar-new-year rule — see our Chinese zodiac guide, and your complete reading calculates your animal, element, and yin/yang.